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Lamb Chops, Fried

Fried lamb chops coated in egg and breadcrumbs, served hot with lemon slices or crisped parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Lamb Chops, Fried

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the lamb into chops, ½ to ¾ inch thick.

  2. Dip each chop into the beaten egg, then coat with the bread crumbs mixed with salt, pepper, parsley, and lemon rind.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat the dripping in a pan and fry the chops until lightly browned on both sides, about 10 to 15 minutes.

  2. Serve on a hot dish, garnished with lemon slices or crisped parsley.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Lamb + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,322 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Lamb + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Lamb chops
Provide the meat that is cooked and served as the main dish.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binding layer so the bread crumb coating sticks to the chops.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns during frying.
Dripping
Conducts heat in the pan and adds richness and browning to the coating.

The step that matters

Fry until lightly browned on both sides. Frying over steady heat browns the crumb coating through Maillard browning while the meat cooks. Too high heat scorches the crumbs before the chop is cooked through, and too low heat leaves the coating pale and greasy.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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